Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-05-14
MONTANA'S GREATNESS.
New Facts Regarding the Progress
OF Montana IN General
Prosperity.

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Montana has entered on an era of indus
trial and commercial prosperity.
There is a general advance ID the value
bf real estate in the principal cities and
Atowns of Montana.
Next fall the Montana Central will be
completed from Great Falls to Helena
opening up mining, agricultural and graz
ling regions of vast extent. Next year the
road will enter Butte.
Two important branch lines will connect
the Montanta Central with rich mining
regions.
The Montana Central viii hasten the
development of the Sand Coulee coal
@tmines and the Neihart mining regions.
This wear will add several branch lines to
fhe Northern Pacific system, and provide it
with an independent route to the Pacific
|sKeoast.
s#t More railroads will be built in Montana
this year than have been constructed since
the completion of the Northern Pacific to
in 1888.
I'd Large investments are being made IN
the cities, mines and lands of Montana.
Thrifty, industrious people are tiocking
ito Montana to engage IN farming or trade.
The product of the gold and silver
mines of Montana may amount to 40,oOO,-
1000 THE year.
ss.a Greater interest than ever is being evin-
Aced in the immense resources OF Montana.
The new railroads will throw open to
ssettlement thousands of acres that were
almost inaccessible.
Low freights to and from Montana will
s#Atresult from the new railroads.
4s The coal fields Of Montana will undergo
rapid development this year.
Montana will make great progress this
in sheep and cattle grazing.
Montana horses have attained great *
#cellence.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis look to Mon
H8s!tana for large supplies Of cattle and sheep
for their stockyards.
California and the rest of the Pacific
aEaaslope are increasing their trade with Mon
Atana.
- The vast water power of the Missouri at
Great Falls is about to undergo Immediate
development. F
- The right of Montana to statehood is
generally recognized.
The river traffic on the Missouri shows
"a gratifying increase.
The adaptibility of the extensive bench
lands of Montana for wheat raising is be-
#siing tested this year with the fullest con-
of success.
Good authority says that 'there are at
least a hundred mines within the boun-
of Montana which for richness, ex-
and indication of permanence are not
Exceeded, if equalled, anywhere else in the
Merld."
Ns ssIn no section Of tie Union are better
laws more rigidly enforced than in Mon
tana."
sChurches and schools are numerous, and
no portion of the United States can
famiIies be raised under better influences
A recent writer says: "hIontana covers
I'm immense extent of territory. Its great
est length from east to west is $40 miles;
Its width 275 miles, and its superficial area
@ Il, 776 square miles. To give the reader
clearer conception of it, it may be said
HSsssshat it is as large as Maine, New Hamp-
Shire, Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
s ssssey. Delaware and Maryland, with one
fourth Of Pennsylvania thrown in. The
Eastern portion may be generally described
Is consisting of vast rolling prair1es and
Extensive plains covered with nutritious
AaEasses and well watered, while the ives
Nern portion is exceedingly mountainous,
Enough Astounding in many fertile valleys
81 nd cattle ranges. Of the 90 00, 900 acres
u the territory, only 90 900 are classed
by the government as mountainous, the
rest being considered adapted TO agricui-
ure, grazing, etc. Fifteen hundred miles
S*bf nayigable waters are within its borders,
while two of the great rivers of the CONT
ssnent rise within its limits-the Missouri,
emptying over 1900 miles away into the
HSs uIf of Mexico. and the Columbia, empty
ing into the Pacific ocean nearly 500 miles
sstlistant,"
Z Regarding Montana's mineral wealth,
the same writer says: "Montana, although
vet a territory, is richerin resources than
any of the states or territories OF
Fhe Union. Really there is no estimating
amount of wealth that lies hidden in
H|her vast mountain ranges. Gold, silver,
lead. iron and coal exist in untold
~auantities, and while millions upon mil
a8aSAIions of dollars worth of the three first
named meta1ge yearly mined, yet only
1.-THE bare SUI ACE of any of the deposits
ssahave here and there been skinned. From
lone hill in Butte City, within a radius
of three miles from a common center
there has been taken the past year QSS6,
more mineral in value than was dug from
the mines of California, or from all the
mines of Nevada, or from all the mines of
Arizona-not the three combined-bu1
more than from any one of them.a
Montana offers homes to millions of far
z@AsEEII mers, mechanics and miners.
a@88 The Mighty Falls.